What's new: ----------- - popen now supports the Glibc 'e' flag to set the FD_CLOEXEC flag on the pipe in a thread-safe way. - netinet/ip6.h header. What changed: ------------- - Switch to BSD FILE stream fopen/exit semantics, as in all BSD variants and Linux/GLibc: Don't fflush/lseek a FILE stream on fclose and exit, if it only has been read from. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00110.html Bug Fixes --------- - Store and restore FPU control word and XMM registers when a signal is handled. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00075.html - Signals should no longer hang when they occur within a low-level Windows DLL. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00151 - If it turns out that transactions don't work during unlink(2) or rename(2), despite the fact that the filesystem claims to handle them, stop transaction and try again without. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00119.html - Closing a dup'ed master tty handle should no longer invalidate the dup'ed fd. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00279 - Problems where ps hangs when used in a pipeline should now be solved. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00262 - Using gdb from a Windows console rather than a pty should no longer randomly hang. - Fix locale-specific radix char handling in scanf family of functions. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00294.html - The console buffer should no longer be cleared when the resolution of the console exceeds some magic threshold. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00406 - Fix inadvertent clearing of entire console buffer on clear screen. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00011.html - Make sure that stackdump file is closed after use. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/threads.html#00029